Andre Roberson, the only player in the Pac-12 averaging a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds per game, should be a shoo-in for a five-player all-Pac-12 team. Having it a 10-man team dilutes the impact, significance and prestige of being named “all-conference.”

And if the Pac-12 insists on a 10-man first team, why does it only have a five-man second team? What sense does that make? The ridiculous seems even more ridiculous.

Roberson is on the Pac-12 all-defensive team (Thank God, that’s a five-man team), and Colorado’s Spencer Dinwiddie made the five-man all-freshman team.

I don’t have a problem with Jorge Gutierrez of California earning Pac-12 player-of-the-year honors. The coaches realize that the former Denver Lincoln product does so much for the Bears at both ends of the court, much more than his stats could show.

But I would have voted Colorado’s Tad Boyle as coach of the year (instead of Washington’s Lorenzo Romar). As a conference newcomer, CU finished in the upper division (tied for fifth) after having lost two players (Alec Burks and Cory Higgins) to the NBA and 75 percent of the 2010-11 scoring.

The Pac-12 is down this year but I can brag to some of my sportswriter friends who cover other leagues that the Pac-12 all-stars would beat another more highly rated conference.

If Boyle’s team had beat Stanford and won their last two games he’d have won Coach of The Year. As it is, it proved that he just can’t get a team that has such ridiculous swings in performance up up up for the “BIG” games. Not his fault, maybe his fault, who knows, but his team time and time again used excuses like “it’s all mental, I (we) just weren’t ready”.

Just curious why the Buffs are STILL getting more face time
in the DP for their basketball team when we have 2 other teams here in
the state competing for spots in the NCAA tourney? I understand the
lop-sidedness of coverage when football season rolls around (PAC-12 is far
superior) but during basketball season and especially in March we still care about
the Buffs and PAC-12… because?

Also, not a mention of Wes Eikmeier who named 1st
team MWC (only had 5 players) and some Roberson dude from CU is the headline on
a 10 player PAC-12 team. It comes off to the readers like either you guys aren’t
following what’s actually happening around the state (we know that’s not true!)
or you guys just really, really don’t like throwing CSU or DU a bone.

What are your thoughts on this? Any good reason why CU and
the PAC-12 should still be dominating headlines?

This has been a terrific year for CSU basketball. Moby Gym has been rocking. Wes Eikmeier, Pierce Hornung, and Dorian Green are exciting players who won conference awards this week. Coach Miles also won an award. The Rams face TCU on Thursday, and they could be going to the NCAA tourney. It’s good to see college hoops alive and well in Colorado again. Great job, CSU, and hope you get to the Big Dance

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.